It is just over a metre long, tapering to thirty centimetres at its base, and decorated with a single incised cross-shaft ending in a fleur-de-lys, the stylised three-petalled motif familiar from heraldry. That it survives at all is something of an accident of circumstance.

The slab belongs to the site of Newtown Earley, a medieval church whose graveyard was cleared and tidied between 1985 and 1987. That work brought a large number of graveslabs to light, documented by R. Harte in a 1987 article published in the Old Kilkenny Review. This particular piece, illustrated by Harte but never assigned a catalogue number or formal description, is only a lower portion; the rest has not survived, or has not yet been found. On the basis of its style, it has been dated to the thirteenth or fourteenth century, a period when such carved slabs, typically marking the graves of clergy or local gentry, were produced in considerable numbers across Leinster. The incised cross-shaft was a common decorative form, though the fleur-de-lys terminal gives this example a modest distinctiveness. Graveslabs of this kind were laid flat over a burial and carved in low or incised relief rather than raised sculpture, meaning they were always vulnerable to wear, breakage, and disappearance beneath accumulating soil.

The slabs uncovered during the 1980s clean-up are now kept within the interior of the church itself, sheltered from further weathering. Visiting the site would bring a visitor into contact not just with this fragment but with the broader collection that emerged from that same graveyard clearance.